The Florida Regional Stewardship Alliance (FRSA) in 2005 launched the Florida Regional Stewardship Alliance Index, an online index and discussion group dedicated to promoting regional approaches to improving Florida's economic competitiveness and quality of life.

The index is meant to monitor progress toward implementation of the recommendations of ?New Cornerstone,? the Foundation's 10-year economic blueprint for Florida published in October 2003.  The report included more than 40 recommendations for statewide and regional action by dozens of potential partners.  (For more information about ?New Cornerstone? and the FRSA, see ?The Regional Files?.) The index lists each of these recommendations and provides an opportunity for partners to post updates on their activities in any of these areas.

The website is also to facilitate the exchange of best practices among Florida's emerging regional partnerships.  The Index provides an opportunity for the regional alliances to easily share information on their activities and progress with other regions across the state.

To date, 20 organizations have registered to use the site, which is maintained by Cambridge Systematics.  The index, which can be found at http://ws2.camsys.com/projects/7382.001/newcornerstone.nsf has a database that can be searched using four criteria:

• author
• topic category
• partner organization
• region

For more information about the FRSA Index, contact Sally Jarrett at .